Improvement in methods of manufacturing knit mittens



W. H. ABEL.

METHOD' OF'MANUFACTRING-KNIT MITTENS. I 350.177.036.` Patented`May-9,1876.

WTJVESSES A v INVEJV'TI i 1 By ig MK I l f g /3 Y Attorney N.PETERS. PHOTO-LITHDGRAPHR, WASHINGON, D. l:A

UNITED I STATES PATEETIQEETcE y WILLIAM H. ABEL, oE BRIsToL, NEW HAMPsHIRE.

IMPRCVEMENT IN METHODS F MANUFACTURING KNIT MITTENS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,086, dated May 9, 1876; application tiled J une-2l, 13,75. Y

yTo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L WILLIAM H. ABEL, of Bristol, in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improved Process of Manufacturing Knit Mittens; and I do hereby declare that the following` is a full and exact .description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciiication- Figure l being a view of the body of Ithe lnitten cut for the reception of a strip to form the thumb thereof; Fig. 2, a similar View of a mitten-body cut in a manner somewhat different from that shown in Fig. l; Fig. 3, a View of the thumb-piece before it is insertedin the body of the mitten; Fig. 4, a View ofthe mitten after the thumb-piece is inserted.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

My invention consists in a process of forming mittens out -of a continuous tubular knit web, the thumb being' made from a separate strip of knit web, and attached to the body of the mitten in a cross-cut of the tubular knit web, substantially as herein specified.

The body ,A of the mitten is knit in a tubular web, and cut therefrom to the proper length, and the end c thereof is narrowed or shaped by cutting, and closed by crocheting or sewing, in any suitable manner. For the insertion or attachment ofthe thumb I make a cross-cut, b, Fig. 1in the body of the mitten, in the proper position for the base ofthe thumb, this cut being as long asv required. to admit the proper size of thumb. The thumb itself is formed from a separate knit piece, B, Fig. 3, of the requisite width to form the circumference of the thumb, and ofa length equal to the reqnired'length .ofthe thumb. One end, c, of this strip is then crocheted or sewed to the upper one of the two edges of the crosscut b, in the body of the mitten, andv a portion of the adjacent side edges thereof are in like manner joined to the lower of the said cross-cut edges, while the remainder of the side edges are joined together, the outer end of the thumb being shaped by rounding ott' the corners at the outer end of the thumbpiece. f The mitten, then,-when provided with a suitable binding or border, d, at the upper 0r wrist en d, is iinished, as shown in Fig. 4.

By the moditication shown in Fig. 2, the crosscut b is made nearer the tip or lower end of the mitten a distance equal to thelength of the thumb from the line f, where the base of the thumb is to be.y Then from the cross-cut the mittenis cut lengthwise along the two lilies g g to the base-linej', thus setting free a thumb-strip, h., already joined to the body of the mitten, and the space left by cutting out said lhumb-strip is filled by crocheting or sewing'in another piece; or the thumb-strip may be of one-half width, and the inserted piece of double length, one-half filling the space, and the other half thereof forming one-half of the thumb, and the said strip It forming the other half of the same.

This method or process of knitting mittens is exceedingly rapid and cheap, and produces a mitten asstrong and good, substantially, as the handknit mitten.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The method of forming knit mittens from a continuous circular knit web, as herein described, which consists in making a cut across thes'ame, and attaching thereto the-thumb B,

which is formed from a separate knit piece, and inserted in the said cross-cut, as shown.

1 Specification signed by me this`2d Aday of October, 1874.

WM. H. ABEL. Witnesses:

J. S. BRoWN, E. J. BROWN. 

